Canada

Canada: Toronto Transit Strike Averted

Date: April 23rd, 2008 |

Union leaders and transit officials in Toronto averted a strike that would have shut down transit throughout the city beginning April 21. The agreement was hailed as fair by both sides and will run for three years. The last-minute resolution came two hours past the strike deadline on April 20 when a strike seemed i [read more]

Canada: Toronto “Panhandlers” Kill a Man

Date: August 15th, 2007 |

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Aggressive panhandling that more resembled armed robbery took the life of a man near downtown Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park. He and a friend were walking just after midnight Aug. 11 when accosted by two men and two women, all in their early 20s, who demanded money. When the victim and friend refused, a verbal exchange [read more]

Canada: Leave Toy Guns Home, Please

Date: August 3rd, 2005 |

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Canadian authorities are exhorting airline passengers to do what may seem obvious: leave toy guns home when traveling by air. Squirt guns, toy grenades and other toy weapons look like real weapons in X-ray scanners and slow down security lines for everyone. Between January and June, security staff at Canada�s airports found almost 3,000 toy [read more]

Canada

Date: April 29th, 2003 |

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The World Health Organization lifted its advisory against travel to Toronto because there have been no new SARS cases in the community at large for 20 days, but Toronto remains an affected area. If new SARS cases appear here, the travel advice will be reevaluated. WHO also reported that the outbreak appears to have peaked [read more]

Canada

Date: June 18th, 2002 |

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The G8 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta will take place June 26-27 and has created tight security in the area. Kananaskis is 70 miles west of Calgary and 44 miles from Banff. Demonstrations are expected in Calgary and possibly closer to Kananaskis. Authorities have established a four-mile security radius around Kananaskis Village and camping and recreational [read more]

Canada: Transit Strike May Hit Toronto April 1

Date: March 20th, 2008 |

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Toronto transit workers could strike April 1 if they don’t reach a deal with the transit commission on a new labor agreement. The current contract expires March 31 and some 99 percent of union members voted to reject the commission’s first contract proposal and authorize a strike if [read more]

Airline Security: Carry-on Regulations Relaxed

Date: September 26th, 2006 |

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Strict carry-on rules that were imposed following the thwarted terrorist plot in August to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft flying from London have been relaxed. The U.S. now allows small amounts of liquids and gels in carry-on luggage and permits beverages purchased at shops inside airport security perimeters to be carried aboard. Containers for toiletries must [read more]

Canada

Date: May 28th, 2003 |

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A new outbreak of SARS in Toronto, Ontario caused the World Health Organization (WHO) to reinstate the city to the list of SARS-effected sites, but the organization is not recommending any restrictions on tra [read more]

Canada

Date: April 23rd, 2003 |

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SARS in Canada and China: The World Health Organization (WHO) issued an advisory Apr. 23 recommending that travelers defer all but essential travel to Toronto, Canada, and Beijing and Shanxi Province, China. The WHO assessment “considered the magnitude of the outbreak, including both the number of prevalent cases and the daily number of new cases, [read more]

Canada

Date: May 21st, 2002 |

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The G8 Summit will be held June 26-27 in Kananaskis, a small town west of Calgary, Alberta. Last year’s summit in Genoa, Italy was marred by violent demonstrations and the death of one protester, but anti-globalization protests this year are likely to be tempered by the altered political climate since [read more]